Support a fair contract for the Albany Newspaper Guild

As readers might know, the staff of the Times Union has been fighting hard for a fair contract. Unfortunately, the management has not taken a good position. For more information on this, go to the Guild’s website www.albanyguild.org.

In any event, in support of and in solidarity with the staff of the TU, I will cease posting to this blog until there is a fair contract for the TU staff.

I was raised in a family committed to the labor movement and to the right of working people to organize and collectively bargain. I was taught from an early age not to ever cross a union picket-line.

I guess that continuing to blog on the TU website while the management is refusing to bargain in good faith is sort of the digital version of crossing a picket-line, and I won’t do it.

I have enjoyed being able to post here over the past several years about issues of importance to the families in Albany’s public schools and hope I will be able to do so again in the near future.